Looking for the missing political links since 1994
Later this year we’re going to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the “Contract with America,” the now famous document which was used by Congressional Republicans to win a majority in both houses of Congress in the 1994 election.
While the Democrats were able to wrest back control of the U.S. Senate at times in the years that followed, the House stayed in GOP hands for twelve straight years. Then in 2000 George W. Bush won the White House. Republicans proved they could win power. Unfortunately, they also proved they didn’t know how to use that power to advance an agenda.
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